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wqsz7xn

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    Comment #27497475

    It's marketing mostly. A lot blockchainers rehash well known concepts to front innovation.

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    Comment #27188872

    You're going to hate the cryptocurrency space :)

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    Comment #27056980

    Wow! That's what I was looking for. Thanks!

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    Comment #27056825

    The aim wasn't for it to be favourable to bitcoin. I'd honestly just like a comparison.

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    Comment #27019765

    I feel like it's really easy to pin bitcoin on its energy usage just because it's so easily measurable. Is there any research that compares a traditional banking platform in terms …

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    Comment #26798491

    The fact that this is wormable is huge.

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    Comment #26773881

    For some reason the 'How It Works' section of this website cracks me up. Specifically 'Arrange the installation with a specialist' bit. The wording just feels so weird.

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    Comment #26744321

    Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.

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    Comment #26564854

    Is there anything like this for emacs? Looks super useful!

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    Comment #26529312

    I'm surprised to find no discussion about the fact that emacs is single threaded. You can achieve a lot but at some point (eg: running it as a window manager) it becomes a little l…

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    Comment #24560730

    Yeah I get that, but then again the Semigroup, Monoid, Functor, Applicative and Monad classes should aim to be correct because they form the base of a lot of other typeclasss. Mayb…

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    Comment #24559476

    Applicative : minimally complete definition: pure Huh? Where's ( ) or liftA2? It's nice having all those types and everything to work over but if the applicative instance is wrong …

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    Comment #24415597

    Isn't this the exact same concept as a dam which pumps water back up when you have excess power? Also how heavy does that weight have to be to be able to store enough energy worth …

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    Comment #24397697

    Am I the only one that is extremely wary of psychoactive substances being used as magic bullet treatment method? You tend not to hear about the people that have had a permanent inc…

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    Comment #24329696

    > "Linux is only free if your time has no value." I've always wondered if Ubuntu was introduced to a child would they learn to use it just as fast as a child that uses Windows? All…

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    Comment #24138159

    Unrelated but what is this website made with? Looks really great.

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    Comment #24067159

    On another note can we talk about the amount of projects that just dump their config/log files in the root directory as a 'hidden' file when you start them? Why? we have a .config …

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    Comment #24048247

    main :: (RealWorld ->) ((), RealWorld) I've been doing haskell for a few months now. I don't think I have ever seen a expression like this. It looks like State. Is this even valid …